NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Andy Weir is the author of The Martian and Artemis, and he has spent a lot of time thinking about traveling to and living on ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...